Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To frown; look sour; be in a dogged humor.
- n. A sudden angry look or glance; a look implying dislike, disdain, anger, displeasure, or prohibition; a frown.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Frowning; sulky; sullen.
Examples
“Sae speaking, he sped rath frae the bield, and was sune lost i 'the glunch shadows o' the mirk night.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
“He went bye with a waff of wind in his plaiding, and his haunch-man as he passed at a discreet distance got the double share of jibe and glunch from the mariners.”
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
“` ` But what's the use o 'looking sae glum and glunch about a pickle banes?”
“Not to be outdone, his neighbors could be grouty and grump, glunch, grunch until they were worn out with gruntling.”
“But what's the use o 'looking sae glum and glunch about a pickle banes?”
““But what’s the use o’ looking sae glum and glunch about a pickle banes? — an ye will hae the truth, ye maun ken the minister came in, worthy man — sair distressed he was, nae doubt, about your precarious situation, as he ca’d it (for ye ken how weel he’s gifted wi’ words), and here he wad bide till he could hear wi’ certainty how the matter was likely to gang wi’ ye”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘glunch’.
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Sound Effects You Didn't Know You Needed
Lesser-known onomatopoeias (or things that sound like they ought to be onomatopoeias but aren't), ripe for use in parodies of the Adam West Batman series.
gloomth, spilth, glunch, flub, spramp, sough, gorp, guff, tump, kerrang, bork, flan and 12 more...
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Will do in a Pinch
Odd items, old or new, that might be employed in a way not originally intended. Like using a chopstick for pinning gathered tresses atop the head.
mangona, dumb-waiter, cundy, font, bénitier, txistu, hungerlin, fainting-fit, glunch, Mexican peso, hammered silver coin, coffee filter and 35 more...
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Glancing Blows
glim, glink, glisk, glunch, twire, glint, asquint, fleer, gleek, keek, skelly, flick and 8 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 843 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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Bits and pieces
neverwasbian, proddywoddy, militant relativism, cverglan, điđe-miđe, goomba, churlsome, skancewards, luftmensch, šmizla, sbc, villayet and 567 more...
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michaeld42's list
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